Russian-American choreographer and ballet master and master teacher
George Balanchine

George Balanchine, born Giorgi Melitonovitch Balanchivadze, was one of the 20th century's most famous choreographers, a developer of ballet in the United States and the co-founder and balletmaster of New York City Ballet. He was a choreographer known for his musicality; he expressed music with dance and worked extensively with Igor Stravinsky. Thirty-nine of his more than four hundred ballets were choreographed to music by Stravinsky.

At New York City Ballet George Balanchine’s “Apollo” (1928) is a touchstone, the fountainhead of neoclassical values and a proving ground for generations of storied dancers. These facts exert pressure on a performer making his first appearance in the title role. Yet the role itself offers solace. Balanchine’s Apollo is a god

The total of nine apprentices and trainees will give the company the depth to dance larger works, such as George Balanchine&#39;s seminal ballet “Serenade” in September and Lew Christensen&#39;s comical “Con Amore” in February. It also helps launch the next

&quot;Ballet is woman&quot; is a famous quote attributed to the Russian–American choreographer George Balanchine. But Seattle–based dance critic Alice Kaderlan has been rethinking that statement. This summer Alice attended an international festival of

George Balanchine&#39;s “The Four Temperaments” presents its dancers with an extraordinary challenge. The body angles are so precise, the lines are so clear-cut and the staging is so spare that it leaves virtually no room for error

13 with works by George Balanchine, Peter Martins and Jerome Robbins. There will be a Balanchine Black &amp; White performance Sept. 16 of “Episodes,” “Apollo” and “The Four Temperaments,” being performed above by Justin Peck and Rebecca Krohn

By Marty Hughley, The Oregonian BLAINE TRUITT COVERTOregon Ballet Theatre&#39;s production of George Balanchine&#39;s &quot;The Nutcracker&quot; is a winter holiday classic in Portland. But the company currently is presenting it in the height of summer on tour in South

Rating: * * * * By Sarah Crompton The relationship between George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins, twin pillars of American ballet, could be the subject of several novels. Robbins adored his mentor Balanchine, who respected his acolyte - but couldn&#39;t

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When the choreographer George Balanchine was running New York City Ballet, there were two sides to being one of his male dancers. Much of the time, as successive men have related, it was as if they just weren&#39;t there. Sometimes, when teaching, he was

The Saturday, July 23, schedule is a little more involved: class, rehearsal and performances of excerpts from George Balanchine&#39;s Who Cares?, plus Trey McIntyre&#39;s Speak, James Kudelka&#39;s Almost Mozart and new choreography by retired OBT principal dancer

Four principle dancers will present two dances choreographed by George Balanchine. They are “Tarantella” (music by Louis Moreau Gottschalk) and “The Man I Love” from the ballet “Who Cares?” (Music by George Gershwin). Both pieces were orchestrated by

The first time I heard Leontyne Price sing in concert, saw Alvin Ailey&#39;s &quot;Revelations&quot; by the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and George Balanchine&#39;s &quot;Serenade&quot; performed by the New York City Ballet are three such moments that come immediately to

Friday night at SPAC, in four ballets by George Balanchine, they danced like gods. The program displayed some of the infinite variety of Balanchine and the company he founded. His sprightly 1957 “Square Dance,” the most measured and rational of the

Soon Balanchine formed a new dance company, Ballet Society, again with the generous help of Lincoln Kirstein. He continued to work with contemporary composers, such as Paul Hindemith, from whom he commissioned a score in 1940 for The Four Temperaments.

1938

Age 34

Balanchine relocated his company to Hollywood during 1938, where he rented a white two-story house with "Kolya", Nicholas Kopeikine, his "rehearsal pianist and lifelong colleague", on North Fairfax Avenue not far from Hollywood Boulevard.

Among his new works, during 1928 in Paris, Balanchine premiered Apollon musagète (Apollo and the muses) in a collaboration with Stravinsky; it was one of his most innovative ballets, combining classical ballet and classical Greek myth and images with jazz movement.

Diaghilev soon promoted Balanchine to ballet master of the company and encouraged his choreography. Between 1924 and Diaghilev's death in 1929, Balanchine created nine ballets, as well as lesser works.

On a 1924 visit to Germany with the Soviet State Dancers, Balanchine, his wife, Tamara Geva, and dancers Alexandra Danilova and Nicholas Efimov fled to Paris, where there was a large Russian community.

After graduating in 1921, Balanchine enrolled in the Petrograd Conservatory while working in the corps de ballet at the State Academic Theater for Opera and Ballet (formerly the State Theater of Opera and Ballet and known as the Mariinsky Ballet).

Based on his audition, during 1913 (at age nine) Balanchine relocated from rural Finland to Saint Petersburg and was accepted into the Imperial Ballet School, principal school of the Imperial Ballet, where he was a student of Pavel Gerdt and Samuil Andrianov (Pavel's son-in-law).

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